Word Meanings - CRIPPLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone." Longfellow.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRIPPLED)
- Decrepit
- Infirm
- weak
- crippled
- superannuated
- effete
- broken-down
- enfeebled
- tottering
- aged
- Lame
- Weak
- faltering
- hobbling
- hesitating
- ineffective
- impotent
- halt
- defective
- imperfect
Related words: (words related to CRIPPLED)
- FALTER
To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell. - HESITATION
1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift. - CRIPPLY
Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. Mrs. Trollope. - ENFEEBLISH
To enfeeble. Holland. - INEFFECTIVENESS
Quality of being ineffective. - SUPERANNUATION
The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude. The world itself is in a state of superannuation. Cowper. Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation. - TOTTER
1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high, - CRIPPLENESS
Lameness. Johnson. - DEFECTIVE
Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied - HESITATINGLY
With hesitation or doubt. - IMPERFECT
1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential - ENFEEBLER
One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble. - HOBBLEBUSH
A low bush having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple. - INEFFECTIVE
Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor. - SUPERANNUATE
1. To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity. Sir T. Browne. 2. To give a pension to, on account of old age or other infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension. - IMPOTENT
Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren. (more info) 1. Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; - DECREPITNESS
Decrepitude. Barrow. - INFIRMNESS
Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle. - IMPERFECTIBLE
Incapable of being mad perfect. - HOBBLY
Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road. - TITTER-TOTTER
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